perverse
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Is perverse a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (law, of a verdict) Ignoring the evidence or the judge's opinions.
noun (English)
1. (geometry) A chiral opposite of something; a mirror image with opposite handedness.Examples: "If two antipodal points move continuously on the sphere, they trace out what are called symmetric figures. These figures have corresponding elements equal, and are equal in area, but are not in general superposable. The one is, in fact, the perverse of the other."archaic
verb (English)
1. (nonstandard) To pervert.Examples: "This rule hath been always for the commodity of that kingdom, where as the powers have been thus by them perversed."; "And though impartial history now and then cast the alow (halo) of a martyr over an unsuccessful patriot's grave; yet even that was not always sure; tyrants often perversed history, sullied by adulation or by fear; — but whetever that last verdict might have been; for him who dared to struggle against despotism, when he struggled in vain, there was no honor on earth; victorious tyranny marked the front of virtue with the brand of a criminal."; "That I have loved you My most puissant disciple I am the fabric of life and death Humanity has perversed the truth"archaicnonstandard
Definition source: Wiktionary